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Favorite low-carb snacks?

Beachbag said:
:) :)
I'm getting more sophisticated in my choice of chocolate. Am up to 85% now, lol. Tried Lindt 98% but it bares little resemblance to chocolate so will stick where I am...... Stifling the urge to eat a bar of good old Dairy Milk.
Fall gal, sorry for digressing :bag:
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Never apologize for talking about chocolate! :)
 
Fallgal said:
Never apologize for talking about chocolate! :)
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Lol. Hard going for us chocolate addicts isn't it. However, I'm less of an addict than I was and the high cocoa stuff does take the edge off.
Lots of luck with your battle to gain control of your diabetes :) x
 
Andy12345 said:
hmmm i never tried jelly wrapped in lettuce but i also never found a bad way to eat it so.....
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I found myself obscurely on the daily mail website yesterday (don't hold it against me, I was directed to another article there)... Anyway, there was an article about gross foods from the 50's, 60's, and 70's. Once of the foods was a salad set in jelly... lettuce, greens, all the usual salad bits set into a green jelly (I think it was green). There was also a "cheese salad jelly", which was some kind of monstrosity with cheese in the jelly, set into a mould with a hole in the middle, and seafood salad filling the hole.
I think jelly has far many uses than even you can imagine, Andy.
 
luceeloo said:
I found myself obscurely on the daily mail website yesterday (don't hold it against me, I was directed to another article there)... Anyway, there was an article about gross foods from the 50's, 60's, and 70's. Once of the foods was a salad set in jelly... lettuce, greens, all the usual salad bits set into a green jelly (I think it was green). There was also a "cheese salad jelly", which was some kind of monstrosity with cheese in the jelly, set into a mould with a hole in the middle, and seafood salad filling the hole.
I think jelly has far many uses than even you can imagine, Andy.
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I remember some of these things from my childhood in the 70's (I'm from USA). Those jello mold monstrosities were all the rage! I've always liked jelly. I've always liked salad, even as a child. But together - ICK! I also remember going to diners where the "diet plate" would be a big salad, with a scoop of cottage cheese on top, and a scoop of jelly. Nothankyou. Those molds with the hole in the middle are called bundt cake molds, just in case you were wondering. (I'm sure you weren't. LOL!)
 
this has got me thinking of what would work in a jelly :) apart from eels :yuck:
 
How about little sardines floating in lemon jelly?
 
Erpp feel sick l am a non jelly eater
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Back home it came in powdered form pre mix and that was what l loved pre made.

Sardines
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l can just about eat if mashed and deboned and mixed with other food which isnt jelly and seeing them floating in jelly no matter what the colour :hungover:

Next you lot will say baked beans in jelly ...oh god baked beans
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Ruining other food items that are good putting them in Jelly......Food philistines alert
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Lenny3 said:
Also make a packet of sugar free jelly up with just half pint water, add a packet of gelatine then pour into ice cube moulds, set and hey presto you've got sweets.
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I went out today and got the 2-pack of Hartley's sugarfree jelly, and the 3-pack of Dr. Otker powdered gelatin.

Now - when you say to make up the packet of SF jelly with just half pint of water - do you mean a half pint of hot water and a half pint of cold water? or 1/4 pint hot water and 1/4 pint cold water?

Thanks!
 
Fallgal said:
I went out today and got the 2-pack of Hartley's sugarfree jelly, and the 3-pack of Dr. Otker powdered gelatin.

Now - when you say to make up the packet of SF jelly with just half pint of water - do you mean a half pint of hot water and a half pint of cold water? or 1/4 pint hot water and 1/4 pint cold water?

Thanks!
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You need to put the sachet of jelly in your jug or bowl then pour half pint of boiling water and mix, then add the sachet of gelatin, this will take a bit longer to mix, sometimes you get lumps, I use the spoon and sort of rub it on the side of the jug till its melted. Then pour into your ice cube tray, or silicone moulds.
 
On the chocolate topic melt and mix chocolate 75% or more with almost equal amount of coconut oil, like 50 grams of each pour into silicone forms or ice cube trays or any kind of tiny forms, after cooling into the freezer (this is by tradition a Swedish Christmas treat), a lovely way to have chocolate and some healthy coconut oil.;)
 
Nuts are a very good snack-macadamias are wonderful-walnuts-and almonds are also good. Not cheap but you don't need many to bridge that gap. Celery sticks and pepper sticks are good and low calorie-low carb and cheap.

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